by University of Otago Graphical abstract. Credit: iScience (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.106986 In a significant development in the fight against fatal cancers, University of Otago researchers have pinpointed a key feature that leads to the aggressive spread of colon cancer. Led by Associate Professor Aniruddha Chatterjee and Drs Euan Rodger and Rachel Purcell, researchers discovered abnormalities in the DNA instruction code that lead...
WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE IMAGE: A STRING OF DNA, SHOWN IN A STILL FROM THE WEHI.TV ANIMATION “BODY CODE”. CREDIT: WEHI CREDIT: WEHI TV DNA discovery reveals a critical ‘accordion effect’ for switching off genes WEHI researchers have revealed how an ‘accordion effect’ is critical to switching off genes, in a study that transforms...
by Dr Steven Magennis, University of Glasgow Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New research on the structure and dynamics of a branched form of DNA called a three-way junction could lead to more effectively targeted treatments for degenerative disorders like Huntington’s Disease, scientists say. In a new paper published in the journal Nature Communications, chemists from the University of Glasgow...
